SAS System Options

PDFCOPY System Option

Specifies whether text and graphics from a PDF document can be copied.

Requirement:	Adobe Acrobat Reader or Professional 3.0 and later versions
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window
Category:	Log and procedure output control: PDF
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	PDF

Syntax
Syntax Description
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See Also

Syntax

PDFCOPY | NOPDFCOPY

Syntax Description

PDFCOPY: specifies that text and graphics from a PDF document can be copied. This is the default.
NOPDFCOPY: specifies that text and graphics from a PDF document cannot be copied.

Details

When the PDFSECURITY system option is set to either LOW or HIGH, SAS sets the PDFCOPY option. If the PDFSECURITY option is set to NONE, this option is not functional and PDF documents can be copied.

The following document properties are set for this option:

Value of PDFCOPY	Value of PDFSECURITY	Document Properties
NOPDFCOPY	LOW	Printing, Content Copying, and Content Copying for Accessibility are set to Allowed. All other properties are set to Not Allowed.
NOPDFCOPY	HIGH	Changing the Document, Document Assembly, Content Copying, Page Extraction, and Commenting are set to Not Allowed.